DUE WEST, S.C. – The Erskine College baseball team (5-2) won two more games to finish off a four-game weekend sweep overThomas Jefferson University (0-4) on Saturday afternoon at Grier Field. Erskine cruised to a 9-1 win in early game and capped off the weekend with an 11-4 win in a shortened seven inning later in the afternoon.

THE ESSENTIALS 
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THE SERIES
This weekend marks the first ever meeting between the Fleet and the Rams.

HOW IT HAPPENED
GAME 1: Erskine 9-1 Jefferson
J.J. Gonzalez opened the scoring for the Fleet with a run-scoring single in the second inning and Erskine starter Caleb Dix held on to that 1-0 lead as he navigated his way through four scoreless innings, scattering a pair of hits and three walks. Michael Kay relieved Dix in the fifth inning and stranded the would-be tying run in scoring position before punching out two batters for a scoreless sixth inning of work. In the bottom half of the inning, the Erskine bats came to life. Dalton Boyd drew a walk to lead off the inning and scored moments later on a Cal Bocchino double before Kane Fisher worked a bases loaded walk to make it a 3-0 lead for the Fleet. Jefferson loaded the bases with nobody out in the seventh inning, but Zach Overholt came in for Erskine and limited the damage to just one run. The Fleet added three more runs in their half of the seventh before Armando Becerra and Joseph Quintana tallied run-scoring hits to push the Fleet's lead to 9-1 and Connor Harrison slammed the door shut in the ninth to seal an Erskine victory in Game 3 of the series.

GAME 2: Erskine 11-4 Jefferson
The Erskine offense got off to a quick start in the fourth and final game of the weekend as Gregory Sanders hit an RBI single before Christian Rivera launched a two-run blast for first Erskine home run to give the Fleet a 3-0 lead after just one inning. Jefferson struck back in the second inning with a two-run single to trim Erskine's lead to one run, but Cal Bocchino answered right back in the bottom half with a two-RBI single of his own to make it a 5-2 game. The Rams scored again in the top of the third, but Kyle Marti and Cal Kryska went the other way for RBI singles to extend Erskine's lead to 7-3 after three innings. Jefferson launched a solo home run in the fourth, but Sanders' three-run home run in the following inning put the Rams away for good. Erskine added another run in the sixth inning as they took the fourth and final game of the series, 11-4.

THE PLAYER
Christian Rivera had a monster performance at the plate in Game 2 of the doubleheader, going 3-for-4 with a first-inning home run that was the Fleet's first big fly of the 2022 season. Rivera also added an RBI double in the sixth inning of Game 1.

WHAT'S NEXT?
Erskine will stay at home as they prepare for a mid-week bout with Mars Hill University (2-5) on Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at Grier Field. 
 
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